Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil WarUniversity of Illinois Press, 2004 - 322 pagina's This is a detailed survey, replete with photographs and diagrams, of the field artillery used by both sides in the Civil War. In paperback for the first time, the book provides technical descriptions of the artillery (bore, weight, range, etc.), ordnance purchases, and inspection reports. Appendixes provide information on surviving artillery pieces and their current locations in museums and national parks. |
Inhoudsopgave
List of Tables | 11 |
Confederate 6pounder Guns and 3inch Rifles | 53 |
Federal 12pounder Field Howitzers 18341862 | 70 |
Federal Napoleon Guns 18571865 | 88 |
Parrott Rifles 18611865 | 109 |
False Napoleons and Gettysburg Replicas | 130 |
itzer Model of 1835 | 137 |
James Smoothbores and Rifles 18611862 | 147 |
49 | 202 |
71 | 211 |
Carriages | 213 |
Introduction to the Appendixes | 224 |
Selma Arsenal List of Propellant Charges 20 Jan | 230 |
86 | 234 |
5B 3inch Ordnance Rifles Singer Nimick | 243 |
7E 6pounder Bronze Guns Ames Model of 1835 | 251 |
Too Big for the Field | 173 |
33 | 184 |
41 | 193 |
British Rifled Cannon | 194 |
7K 6pounder Bronze James Guns Ames | 257 |
179 | 263 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
12-pounder bronze field 12-pounder Field Howitzers 3-inch Ordnance rifles 3-inch rifle 6-pounder guns 816 Gettysburg NMP Appendix Arsenal Artillery base ring battery Blakely rifle boat howitzers bore breech breechloading bronze field howitzer Bronze Rifles carriage Cast bronze cast iron Chick-Chatt NMP GA-TN Citizens File Contracts Cyrus Alger Dahlgren Federal fieldpieces fillet Fort Jay Fort Niagara Fredericksburg VA George Thatcher Gettysburg NMP PA Greenwood grooves Gun Foundry Book inches James rifles James Wolfe Ripley knob known left trunnion length Location Location-remarks Lower muzzle face Maker Manassas NBP manufacture marks Model muzzle band muzzleloading NMP PA Gettysburg number pounds Ordnance Officer Ordnance Purchases Parrott rifles Petersburg NB pieces pounder projectiles Proof Sheets rear record Register of Inspections Registry numbers rifled guns Right trunnion Shiloh NMP TN smoothbore Source steel rifled surviving survivors Tredegar Foundry USMA West Point Vicksburg NMP weapons weight West Point Foundry Whitworth wrought iron
Populaire passages
Pagina 315 - A Course of Instruction in the Elements of the Art and Science of War, for the Use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 12mo, cloth $1 .75 Field Fortifications.
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